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However when I want to create a file that contains only materials, I have to create object to assign them to so that Blender will save them.

And there is no one view that will show me all the materials in the scene. Most applications have the ability to create and view all materials without even applying them to objects.

Having a window view that would show all materials using thumbnails would help.

Additionally the ability to see which object is assigned to given material. Currently this is complicated if not borderline impossible. Sometimes during creation of meshes, i create a few materials.001 and i don't recollect which object has that material. So i have to go through a bunch of objects (and also look through objects that have various materials assigned) to identify where it is to correct the assignment.

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Seen something like this in Cinema4D.

Useful for using it as a displacement map and shooting bullets. Instant dents to the object ;) Also good for shield effects.

Basically, the proximity shader looks at the designated emmiter, and based on how close a particle is to the surface of the object which (which the shader is applied to) make a spot on a texture (Grey scale is sufficent). This then can be applied to just about any type of node. :D

Example for using it would be as following:
bullet impact:
1st emitter shoots a "bullet"
upon impact, bullet particle is eliminated. It triggers a new emitter (object it impacts) to spawn a new particle. This new particle is used on the proximity shader which is applied as displacement creating a dent.

shield effect:
1st emitter shoots a "plasma bullet"
upon impact, plasma bullet particle is eliminated. It triggers a new emitter (object it impacts) to spawn a new particle which slowly moves away from the surface. This new particle is used on the proximity shader which is applied as alpha channel creating a "shield impact" effect. Why moving away, because then it looks like the impact triggered a huge reaction afterward is shrinks as times proceeds.

this can be simplified. it is something that could improve some SFX.


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Like this:
http://www.crysis-online.com/images/news/CryEngine2/crytek_parallax_occlusion_mapping_enhanced.jpg
http://graphics.cs.brown.edu/games/SteepParallax/compare.jpg

I don´t think i have to explain why Parallax Mapping would look better.

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Why not only leaving it empty, for the user to asign a material, like when you delete a material with "delete link to this datablock". There is still an unassigned material in the editing buttons (F9) "Link and Materials".

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There have been several instances where I've used the Halo for effects like neon light, but it's a real pain because you have to split edges up many many times to get the desired effect, and even then you have problems with the physical scale of the object, and different densities of the verticies along the subdivided edges.

Would probably mean disabling some of the options like "star" with this option enabled.

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Maybe 2 panels may be welcome !

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I and others really needed this feature in ours toon projects. I only want a better tool for me and for all.

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The reflection should be more visible the darker the background and the brighter the reflection.

The opacity should decrease the brighter the background.


Maybe an Alphachannel-system would do the trick without having to use some physical rendering.

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Either if you are able to blur the grainy reflection, according to its Z, so that only the meant-to-be-blurred-part will be blurred,

or:
The material reflects parts, maybe picking the bright parts rather than dark parts, and interpolates in between. Less parts the further the reflected part from the surface.

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Would be great for UV mapping/ preview, general textures, etc.

I was surprised it doesn't exist

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http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j62/drain-body-confirmed/mirroruv.jpg

This technique is used a lot in games to conserve texture space/polys and it would be great if Blender could do it.

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Being able to use different filters in the same viewport would be ace (like Multigen).

cheers

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Currently, baked lightmaps can be applied to an object as a texture, mapped to diffuse color ("Col" in the "MapTo" panel). There are a number of blending modes to choose from, each of which behaves differently with your lightmap image. The problem with all of these is that none of them take into account lights and shadows. If your lightmap has a very dark area on it, it doesn't matter how many bright lights you put over there; it's going to stay dark. Further, shadows in your lightmap don't interact with raytraced shadows that may be cast by characters and objects that you plan to animate.

This could be solved by adding a new option to the "MapTo" panel. This new mapping option, "Light," would simulate light reflecting off of your lightmapped scene. The advantages of this approach:

--No need to light the scene; bright areas in your texture were already lit, so that light is baked into the texture. You can remove all lights and very quickly render your whole scene with accurate lighting and shadows.

--Non-baked lighting has an effect; if you want your character to cast shadows on your scene, these will be taken into account based on the simulated lighting provided by your lightmap texture. If you want a character to point a flashlight into an area that was dark when you baked it, the flashlight will clearly illuminate that dark area.

--It's a texture, not a lamp; so the effects will be tweakable with material nodes, and should render more quickly than adding a lamp. This will also make it possible to layer "lamp textures," and create interesting effects with texture warping, and mixing with other mapping options, such as Normal, Specular and Alpha maps.

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The idea is simply... include new node in materials nodes that give us the posibility to manipulate the AO from the material option just for this material.

so we need to include 4 options buttons in AO panel.

1-FROM MATERIAL NODE: that means the AO is going to out from Material node, so the AO is just in materials that have the AO on, so the rest materials if they haven't, the AO is off on them.

2-BOTH: that means the AO is check on in both place. the diferece if is we wanna manipulate the AO we need to jump from AO panel to MaterialNode and comeback.

3-FROM AO PANEL: that means the AO is giong out just from AO panel, so if some Material have AO on, these are going to be off, and all the AO is out from here.

4-COPY: this opttion has 2 suboptions..
· copy to AO MaterialNode panel and overight all AO nodes
· copy from a AO Material to AO panel, including the posibility to overight all or just the AO panel.

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